Paul Schrader (Paul Joseph Schrader) Quotes
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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Today, we face another major potential attack on our country. This attack is not a hijacked plane or bomb, although that remains a threat; rather, it is a cyber attack.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.
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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
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You feel real good, Lana. Makes me forget everything else...
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The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.
